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Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943

Memoirs written by Rivka Prilutzki from Berlin titled, "Mutti's Memoirs" regarding her experiences, 1941-1943 Life in Berlin before her husband's escape to Belgium; detention in Moabit prison in Berlin; transfer to the prison in Cologne; prison life for 5 months; release from prison; return home; smuggling of her sons to Yugoslavia; intention of the boys to make aliya from Yugoslavia to Eretz Israel; notification during the Pesach holiday by the Eretz Israel Office of the Jewish Agency, of the boys' arrival in Eretz Israel; escape to Brussels; transfer to Paris; illegal stay in Paris; meets her husband;...

File Number : 8665

Type of Material : Memoirs

Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum and Chaim Posner to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1943-1944

Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum and Chaim Posner to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1943-1944 - Receipts for monthly payments by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization that were transferred by Marc Jarblum, the former head of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Associations (FSJF), to Jewish refugees in Switzerland; - [Receipts for] payments [apparently by Saly Mayer and the JDC organization] that were transferred by Chaim Posner, head of the Eretz Israel office (Palestina-Amt) in Geneva [for Jewish refugees in Switzerland], September 1944.

File Number : להזמנת התיק ראו קוד מיקרופילם

Type of Material : List of Names, Official Documentation

Correspondence and testimonies of several people regarding the activities of Dr. Fritz Berger while he was working for the Palaestina Amt (Palestine Office) in Berlin

Correspondence and testimonies of several people regarding the activities of Dr. Fritz Berger while he was working for the Palaestina Amt (Palestine Office) in Berlin - Letter of appreciation written 01 March 1962 by Hermann Klein congratulating Fritz Berger on the occasion of Berger's 60th birthday, and thanking Berger for having acted on his and his wife’s behalf after his arrest, 28 October 1938; - Record of Dr. Berger's activities on behalf of the Verband polnischer Juden in Deutschland (Association of Polish Jews in Germany); details regarding Berger's efforts, together with Dr. Friedenthal, to...

File Number : 317

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938

Testimony of Israel Bleyberg, born in Radymno, Poland, 1895, regarding the Polenaktion (expulsion of the Polish Jews from Germany), October 1938 - Move to Germany, February 1913; work as a shoemaker; marriage; births of two children; - Removal of the witness from his home in Berlin by the police without notice in the middle of the night, 28 October 1938; transfer to the Blücher Street barracks; at noon, loaded on trucks with 126 men and brought to a train station (name not mentioned); reason given for the "Aktion": "the Polish government wanted to denationalize its citizens living abroad; the Germans...

File Number : 169

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

Material regarding the memorialization of Jakob Edelstein, a Jewish leader in Prague

Material regarding the memorialization of Jakob Edelstein, a Jewish leader in Prague In the file: - Memoirs, memorials and material collected by Judith Bressman regarding Jakob Edelstein, the former Director of the Palaestinaamt (Palestine Office) in Prague, later the Judenaeltester (Senior Jewish Elder) of the Jews in Theresienstadt, who was murdered in Auschwitz, June 1944; - The material includes a copy of "On the Memorialization of Jakob Edelstein", an article which appeared in Irgun Olei Merkaz Europa newsletter No. 26, 01 July 1949 (pp. 2-7).

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article, Bibliography

Language : German

A short biography of Dr. Baruch Zvi Ophir (Benno Hirsch Offenburg), born in Hamburg, 1910, with an emphasis on his activities as envoy of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Deputation of German Jews) to Italy A short biography of Dr. Baruch Zvi Ophir (Benno Hirsch Offenburg): Dr. Baruch Zvi Ophir was born in Hamburg; he studied philosophy, history and Semitic languages, and earned a doctorate in philosophy. He emigrated from Germany due to anti-Semitism, 21 November 1933, and served as the envoy of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to Italy. Ophir recruited Italian Jews and...

File Number : 153

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : German

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Letters and postcards sent to Else (Wolinsky) Steinwell in Kibbutz Naan by her family in Nürnberg 1937-1939, and additional documentation pertaining to members of the Wolinksy family - A postcard sent by Else Wolinsky in Garmisch Partenkirchen (Germany), to Ephraim Steinwell in Kibbutz Hanoar Haoved near Rehovot (British Mandate of Palestine), on 25 September 1934; - Letters and postcards sent to Else Steinwell in Kibbutz Naan by her parents, Michael and Roza Wolinsky, and her sister Betty, in Nürnberg (Nuremburg, Germany), 1937-39, including two letters sent via Frida Kissinger in Lausanne (Switzerland)...

File Number : 4922

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter, Personal Records, Certification, Envelope, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish

Letters from Berlin, Vienna, Posen, and Kraków to Adolf Abraham Eidelheit in Berlin, 1938, and documentation associated with the Eidelheit and Schlesinger families, issued in Vienna, Berlin, Poland, and Eretz Israel - letters and cables sent to Adolf Abraham Eidelheit and his family in Berlin, 1938, on the occasion of the birth of his son and their immigration to Eretz Israel: -- the Berlin Jewish community; -- Dr. Hans Klee in Berlin; -- the organization of Polish Jews in Berlin; -- Lola, Artur, and Hans, in Kraków; -- the Rakowe, Schoenfeld, Gutter, Heller, and Pineles families, in Posen; -- Janina...

File Number : 4641

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Marriage Certificate, Application, Birth Certificate, Letter, Personal Documents, Certification, Telegram

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Letters from Pepie Kraemer née Katz, in Leipzig and Genoa, to her mother and brother in Eretz Israel, 1937–1955, and official correspondence from 1939 on concerning arranging her immigration to Eretz Israel together with her husband, Emil Kraemer, and their infant daughter Personal correspondence: from Pepie Kraemer née Katz, in Leipzig and Geneva, to her mother and brother in - letters and postcards from Pepie Kraemer née Katz, Leipzig, to her mother, Anna Katz, and her brother, Isi Katz, Jerusalem, 1937– 1939; - letter from Anna Katz, Jerusalem, to her daughter Pepie and her son-in-law Emil Kraemer,...

File Number : 4430

Type of Material : Telegram, Postcard, Letter, Official Documentation, Envelope

Language : English, German

Documentation sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti in Jerusalem by her parents, from Berlin, Przemysl, Gdynia and Kaunas, regarding their aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939-1940

Documentation sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti in Jerusalem by her parents, from Berlin, Przemysl, Gdynia and Kaunas, regarding their aliya to Eretz Israel, 1939-1940 - Letters and postcards sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti by her parents, from Berlin, 09/03-08/06/1939; - Letters and postcards sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti by her parents, from Gdynia, 11/06-14/08/1939; - Letters and postcards sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti by her parents, from Kaunas, 27/12/1939-05/12/1940; - Postcard sent to Yael Fanny (Rosenfeld) Tutti by her parents, from Przemysl, 08/05/1939; - Telegrams...

File Number : 3102

Type of Material : Postcard, Telegram, Envelope, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German